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    1 year ago

    Oh, wow, talk about mask-off enshittification of the internet! If I were anyone in the fediverse, be it kbin, lemmy, masto, or whathaveyou, I’d very seriously start talking about what kinds of monetization we ourselves can establish so we can avoid the shitstorm that’s going on on the big SMNs.

    IF (and that’s a big if) we can monetize ourselves, we very well could be able to stop investors and shareholders from enshittifying what we are now able to use. Otherwise, we are just running on a treadmill of platforms that start off with great ability and promise, but who’s ultimate goal is to be enshittified.

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      1 year ago

      You don’t need to monetize too hard with fediverse. Anyone can self host an instance, no venture capital loans needed.

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        And if someone does try to monetize a federated instance too hard, people will just move to a different instance. I have no problem with ads on Lemmy/kbin because it’s inherently self-limiting in how intrusive they can be.